in which he quoted sections from this book, al-Ibāna. A copy of it formed part of his endowment. Likewise, the jurist Abū al-Ma'ālī Mujallī, author of al-Dhakhā'ir fī al-Fiqh (Treasures of Jurisprudence), had a copy.

The hadith scholar Abū Muhammad ibn al-Mubārak ibn 'Alī al-Baghdādī, known as Ibn al-Tabbākh, said at the end of al-Ibāna:

“I copied this entire book from a copy held by Shaykh Mujallī, the Shāfi'ī jurist. He brought it out for me in a bound volume, and I copied it and collated my transcription against it. He—may Allah have mercy on him—relied on it and on what its author stated therein, saying, ‘May Allah reward its author!’ He would also debate